Chad Howe

And they started learning that I knew more than they did.

And these were college students.

So they would be like, well, you know, can you help me with my project?

And I'm like, sure.

So they'd give me their mainframe passwords.

And so I was on the college mainframe.

That's how I got in the college mainframe in 1986.

I was 12.

My mom was blind, and so I knew how to work with blind people, too, really, really well.

The state of Pennsylvania, the federal government, I don't know who did it, but they decided that this university, which was a big university, it's still there.

They decided this one university was going to become handicap accessible.

So they put in wheelchair ramps, electric doors, everything everywhere.

And all of a sudden, now the town is flooded with paraplegics and wheelchair users and every kind of handicap you can think of.

That meant a lot of blind people came too.

And since my mom was blind, I knew how to deal with blind people.

She had blind friends I was already doing work for because the state back then, they needed somebody to read the books to them.

There wasn't the internet now.

So they had the textbooks, but they couldn't read them and they weren't available in braille.

So they needed somebody to read them to them and the state didn't care how old you were.

They didn't care about social security or taxes back then.